The action of the film occurs over a five-day period, from a Friday through a Tuesday morning.[Friday]The story officially begins in downtown San Francisco with a view of a cable car, as an attractive, elegantly-dressed (obviously rich) and coiffed, high-heeled blonde woman with a black suit crosses the street at Union Square.In order not to disappoint Dr.Frankenstein, however, the dim-witted Fritz desperately grabs the other glass jar labeled "Dysfunctio Cerebri - Abnormal Brain.[Note: Cagney""s role was allegedly patterned after Chester Hale, a well-known, real-life impressario, or even after choreographer Berkeley himself.But she rides in stunned silence and avoids looking at him - providing a sharp contrast to the ever-changing scenery moving behind them.Alice ""awoke"" and noticed Sheila having trouble during their shared nightmare:When Sheila smeared the red ink into her paper o try to clean it up, her hand plunged into her desk, and then when her hand was released, a mechanical, robotic claw-like hand burst from the hole in her desk and grabbed her face.